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You're absolutely right ABFer. I almost got hired again for the road just a few weeks ago. Trouble is I blew the interview when I asked if I got paid delay time for when I had to pull over to take my Viagra!
You're absolutely right ABFer. I almost got hired again for the road just a few weeks ago. Trouble is I blew the interview when I asked if I got paid delay time for when I had to pull over to take my Viagra!
Wow! I'm gonna leave that one alone!
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What was the problem, was it an interview for a job hauling Cialis?You're absolutely right ABFer. I almost got hired again for the road just a few weeks ago. Trouble is I blew the interview when I asked if I got paid delay time for when I had to pull over to take my Viagra!
You're absolutely right ABFer. I almost got hired again for the road just a few weeks ago. Trouble is I blew the interview when I asked if I got paid delay time for when I had to pull over to take my Viagra!
This kid don't need no viagra! :o
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You're absolutely right ABFer. I almost got hired again for the road just a few weeks ago. Trouble is I blew the interview when I asked if I got paid delay time for when I had to pull over to take my Viagra!
Why you have to pull over to take Viagra? Its not a suppository.
Why you have to pull over to take Viagra? Its not a suppository.
Oh no, that's why it wasn't working!
Skidmark,
for me anyway, it's not a matter of having balls or not. There are a coupla things here that affected my decision to leave; the first being accountability... We, the working men and women have been and are still being asked to pay for upper managements mistakes and mismanagement, yet no one at their level is even remotely willing to take on any of the responsibility... We all watched what happened at Hostes and until someone in upper management is willing to take control and make the decisions needed to turn this company around, it is doomed for the same fate........
The second issue is simply, my family... I have always and will always provide for my family at all costs. This was not only taught to me by my father but, ingrained into my being...if you can't/won't put aside your fears/doubts and step up and do what is necessary when it is necessary, how do you call yourself a man, look yourself in the eyes without turning away?
Things are tough right now, there is no question to that what so ever but, and this is the thing...they aren't even close to the hard times during the Depression, when thousands of men and women stood up and literally fought in the streets for what we as a whole can't even protect.
I'm not pointing fingers, simply stating facts, I left and will never look back. I found a job and in fact, as it stands now, a far better job with stability, benefits and the knowledge that the work I do is appreciated and as such, we are treated with the respect deserved...
I have found another job, 1st application, 2nd interview with transportation mgr, 3rd is the interview / welcome to .............! from the corporate traffic mgr.,but due to the Holiday coming up he said it may be a couple of weeks.! There new tractors are coming in late due to mfg delays. If it is still an issue after Thanksgiving that he will be renting Ryder until they arrive and are placed in service. The effort on his part to be up front and honest surprised me..." If I had the trucks that were due in this past Monday....I would be handing you keys instead of having to tell you to wait." Even after I left his office, he walked to the breakroom, got me coffee and we sat and talked some more about assigned tractors and dispatch system they use. I guess not everyone is such an ass as most of the managers I come into contact with here.!
My grandfather helped John L Lewis get the WVa, coal miners to stand together and helped form The UMW. " Your word is your bond, your strength is the brother standing to protect your back and you his.!" That was the last thing he said to me when we talked union just weeks before his death at 93. That day in the nursing home he shook my hand, still a proud man, a dying mans grip of your hand in a steel vise until he let go. Son you better work on that grip, you will need it on the picket line.! I hand to shake the blood back into my hand. I could only think of what would happen if he would stand up and say what was on his mind, in our union today.!
I guess it all depends on how you were raised. I spent my summer helping on grandpa's farm, I was only 12 when he took me into Ansted WVa to get a hair cut. He took me into the barber shop and told the barber " this is my grandson, give him a man's hair cut. He said I was to wait until he came back. Sitting by on old pot belly stove, this old man was chewing tobacco and spitting into a spit bucket. As I was getting a hair cut, he was telling a story about when the company men came into town and was threatening the miners when they could catch them alone. Men were getting beat up and were unable to work." He himself was sitting right over thar in the chair, when a woman rushed in and said that the company men were threatening the womenfolk shopping at the general store, and that they were talking to his wife. Right over thar in the general store." Old Hershel just wondered over there and asked the women folk to take their children an to get out of thar.! Then Hershel told the store keep he just best leave, walked him to the door, Thar was such a hellish racket a going on then this feller came flying thru that winder right thar.! Then he came crossing the street holding this boss man by the back of his shirt, made him say he was sorry to his wife, spit tobacco in his face." The old man looked at me with a smile and told everyone, that man just left here....pointed at me with his cane and said...that's his grandson.! After dinner I asked him if that story was true..." the depression made a man hard back in those days, the coal companys made us mean." I asked him how many men did he beat up, " O bout 6 or 7 of them, you know I had to lock the door after the store keep left..." Why grandpa,? ...." well I didn't want any of those raskels to get outta there.!" You did that for the union ? " Naw...I did that because they disrespected your grandma....but I did lose a lot of dynamite back then.!" I still remember his words " never give in or never give ground...the man will take the food right off of your table.! "
I have been thru this 5 times before same bs and then there gone.! Different name on the door same results...each of us will have to do what is best for each of us.
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A man needs to know when to fold 'em. If he guesses right he's a champ, if he guesses wrong he's a chump
Read my post again my friend....man does what a man has to do...family comes first. Fight a loan ? with my wages and retirement...bad gamble. At least grandpa had John L Lewis at his back....Hoffa at mine, now thats a secure feeling. I'd be getting my head busted while he's off doing a photo for the teamster magizine for getting 3 school crossing guards into the union. LOL !
You're absolutely right ABFer. I almost got hired again for the road just a few weeks ago. Trouble is I blew the interview when I asked if I got paid delay time for when I had to pull over to take my Viagra!
That damn little blue pill always finds a way to get you in trouble!
:LMAO:Oldguns,
thank you for your posts, my Grandfather was a Teamster under the real Hoffa, when men actually stood up and fought for their familys, when Union leaders not only stood behind their members, they stood in front of them and led... Those eyes, ya looked into his eyes and ya knew...best leave this man alone.
Rodeo,
I think you have my post and Oldguns mixed up but, as I have said before... When the majority is so afraid for their jobs that they are not only not willing to stand up and fight for a better future for their familys but wont even protect what others have fought so hard for, the fight is already over.
As far as leaving my Brothers to fight alone, I sir earned my Union membership by helping to organize at Overnite in KC (with real men that stood up for what they believed in). I have also volunteered in other organizing campaigns, lobbied in my state capital and as a matter of fact, have done everything ask of me for my Brothers, even when not asked but, saw things that needed to be done and did what was necessary... My Grandfather not proud of me... You sir have no idea
thank you for your posts, my Grandfather was a Teamster under the real Hoffa, when men actually stood up and fought for their familys, when Union leaders not only stood behind their members, they stood in front of them and led... Those eyes, ya looked into his eyes and ya knew...best leave this man alone.
Rodeo,
I think you have my post and Oldguns mixed up but, as I have said before... When the majority is so afraid for their jobs that they are not only not willing to stand up and fight for a better future for their familys but wont even protect what others have fought so hard for, the fight is already over.
As far as leaving my Brothers to fight alone, I sir earned my Union membership by helping to organize at Overnite in KC (with real men that stood up for what they believed in). I have also volunteered in other organizing campaigns, lobbied in my state capital and as a matter of fact, have done everything ask of me for my Brothers, even when not asked but, saw things that needed to be done and did what was necessary... My Grandfather not proud of me... You sir have no idea